/lit/ - Literature

>>15315686
If I genuinely heard someone in real life speak the way Land writes I'd become possesed by a mysterious urge to beat the shit out of them until they made themselves understood.

/lit/erature was a mistake

>>15252499
>No, not really
That's a shame. Perhaps you just haven't found it yet. Or perhaps you just need to force yourself to be interested in something. I find if you have nothing to work towards then there's little that differentiates one day from the next. Even if it doesn't fascinate you, having something to work towards and structure your day around, and to give a sense of progression and accumulation, helps. perhaps that's why some people love video games so much—it becomes a surrogate for progression in the IRL.

>>15144937
I have a 10" ereader. Really good for highlighting, notating, and navigating books and journal articles (depending on the quality of the pdf) as it's 1:1 for every book that isn't a textbook and preserves the original formatting. I will say that, given the price, you should only really go for it if interacting with the native PDF format comfortably is important, or if the size of the screen is significant for some other reason (as in your case, for reading manga). If you simply want to read books and nothing more, go for a smaller and cheaper e-reader and use Epubs/Mobi's. i've never tried reading manga on it, but i can load one up and take some pictures if you'd like.

>>14901130
The idea of a hardy people creating a blossoming civilisation which is eventually made weak and ineffectual by wealth and decadence is quite old. I would say formally it is certainly as old as enlightenment and renaissance commentators on Rome and Sparta. But even prominent romans bemoaned the decline of roman character in favour of decadent and effeminate greek culture at least as far back as the collapse of the republic or shortly after. Yearning for the rome of Cincinnatus was common. Hell, even Plato and Aristotle have a similar cyclical account of government types. Whether the exact words were used only recently i don't think really matters, the idea behind it stretches back to time immemorial. It's just petty nitpicking to call people dumb for using a modern incarnation of it.
That said, i don't think the idea itself is very true.

>>14339672
>Isn't this book just a critique of anti-monarchistic political views?
no. hobbes actually prefers a monarchy. the book is really about why a disparate community of people who do not share a common comprehensive moral doctrine (to use the rawlsian term) should unite together under a single sovereign and follow his laws. it is hobbes' portrait of human nature, namely, extremely antisocial, and the pragmatic reasons he gives as to why such self-interested people should relinquish their right to simply take what they wish through violence, which is why i recommended it. as for kant, he derives morality from reason, so you should abide by it regardless of emotional disposition, or so kant thinks.

The best way to get published as an undergrad is to get a professor to vouch for you/"co write" your paper. Even if you get past peer review, editors are massive gatekeepers who are foremost concerned with the "quality"(i.e. prestige) of the journal (which translates to: only publishing people with PhD after their name). Especially if you're going against the current, you have no hope. also, you probably aren't ready to produce anything of quality yet. Just hold out your ideas for/after your PhD thesis and then try to get them published. Or try to find an undergrad journal.